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Thursday, August 20, 2015

So, you’ve all seen the media lately. Officers shooting “innocent” victims: You
know, all of those “upstanding citizens” that are being picked off one by one
by the cops. Oh, and NEWS FLASH: All
white cops are racist. And incase you
live under a bush, you know that the police are corrupt, dirty, law-breaking
jerks who are arrogant and cocky and will shoot anyone when presented the
opportunity. You did see all that too,
right?

I’m married to one of those dirt bags and I just can’t
believe what an asshole he is.I mean,
what gives him the right to arrest the guy armed with two knives that threw a
lit gasoline filled bottle at him?And
how could he possibly have the nerve to shoot at someone trying to run over one
of his fellow officers?And WHY THE HELL
did he get a Silver Medal of Valor for carrying victims out of a house engulfed
in flames?Oh, and when he was out with
a buddy of his for dinner and a drink, he TOTALLY deserved to get blind-sided
attacked by some chicken-shits while PEEING by a group of guys that recognized
him as a police officer.He was black
and blue and completely swollen.And
while he does everything wrong because all people are OBVIOUSLY law-abiding
citizens, he has to come home and be a husband and father and son-in-law too.

We cannot afford a home; not one that would pass inspection
at least.And say it did pass
inspection; we wouldn’t have much of a yard because land is very expensive here.Renting is the unknown, but it is less scary
the smaller your family is.My Dad lives
with us and a three bedroom is way beyond our means to buy.We might have the mind to give our daughter a
sibling, but if we can’t afford a home that is safe and has a yard for them to
play in, to chase butterflies, grow a garden, play catch, plant a tree, then we
will forever remain renters with one child.My husband is the only full-time worker and I work part-time from home
doing marketing.Our fortunes are many:
we have our health, food in the fridge, a roof over our heads, and our daughter
does not have to be put into a daycare.Yet what gets me is this:

The hardest working man I’ve ever met is stereotyped,
criticized, harassed, and hated every single day of his life.Why is this amazing husband, incredible
father, wonderful son-in-law, exceptional employee slandered on a daily
basis?Why because he wears a blue
uniform and a badge of course!It turns
out that this good guy is perceived as a bad guy thanks to all of the media
outlets that focus on the mistakes of a couple of officers or the few bad eggs
in departments NATION-WIDE.

I try really hard not
to let the media outlets get to me.In
fact, I don’t even watch the news and I’ve began blocking the bigamists on
Facebook.Still, information seeps
through somehow, (probably mainly through my Dad who likes relaying every
police related news story to me… Still love you Dad).When I hear it, I just want to shout and
scream these words:

“YOU IDIOTS!You always hold the
military in such high regard… Those people that are keeping you safe by
fighting a war overseas that doesn’t make a lot of sense, while you bash the
officers protecting you from some of the craziest people of all… your
neighbors!The amount of corrupt people
in this nations police force is no greater than the amount of corrupt
firefighters, corrupt service members, corrupt teachers, corrupt office
officials, corrupt priests and parish members!!!So please… take away the 1 out of 10,000 negative
stories you can dig up and create mass controversy with and put up the easy
millions of life-saving stories that are going to paint the more accurate
picture of what police work entails.Why
do I ask this of you?Why do I BEG this
of you?Because officers are
second-guessing themselves now and losing their lives for it.Officers are being shot rather than shooting
because it “might not” be a gun the person is pulling on them and they could be
the next “trigger happy” cop all over the news.

Kids always pretended to be cops and robbers… but why would they pretend to be cops and robbers?Because cops ARE the good guys who are out
protecting complete strangers and getting the “robbers”, (like the heroes in a
story, except this is a real story).I fear
that with all the negative media coverage, our children will perceive police
officers to be villains while robbers will become the “victims”.This is already creating riots against
officers; what will it do to future generation’s perception?

All I know is that we will have many talks
with our daughter about what it is Daddy does and how hard he works for our
family so that there is no confusion if she catches a glimpse of the daily
news. When he's working obscenely long and unpredictable hours on a case, or he's filling out the endless paperwork that's attached to his job, or he's arresting someone who was drinking and driving and killed a family and can't make her dance recital, I will hug her and tell her again and again that he wishes more than anything that he could be there. I know it might not make sense to her why he's spending his time with others and not with her, but when he gets home after seeing a child her age who has died and he hugs her until she won't let him hug her anymore, I hope she knows that her Daddy is NOT the bad guy, but instead a selfless man who will do anything for his family... and for complete strangers.

I took this picture almost two years ago.
It's CRAZY how time flies.

PLEASE SHARE THIS IF YOU AGREE! Let's start spreading the message about what police life is REALLY like and show our support to officers.

Disclosure: These are all my own opinions. I also am very grateful to our military service members and appreciate every single one of them who keeps us safe.